Candy Tree Dessert

It has been awhile since I last update on our Food Crawl that happened back in January. But here I am, back on track! Candy Tree Dessert was our first dessert stop, after all those savory dishes from Hoi An Cafe, CHAU Veggie Express, and Sushi by Yuji. It is located in South Burnaby, and it specializes in Asian-style desserts, such as waffles, shaved ice, and sweet soup (糖水), etc. And we were here to try out its Durian Waffle Tower.

We came here around 10pm. There were many customers at late night! Unbelievable!

There were many options on desserts. There were snow ice, hot and cold sweet dressers, waffles and drinks.

We ordered a mango snow ice to share. We could add three toppings to the snow ice. We chose black rice, handmade sweet potato mini balls, and fresh mango. It tasted delicious.

We might come back to try other desserts. There is street parking. It is also close Patterson Skytrain station. Although it is located in the middle of nowhere on Kingsway in Burnaby, it is convenient to come here for desserts, bubble tea and others.

If the restaurant is full, customers may be waiting in line even it is at late night. That's crazy!

I was invited to another Chinese Bites event and this time we hit up Candy Tree Dessert. They are located on Kingsway near Patterson and close to the Patterson skytrain station. I knew they would offer similar desserts to Icy Bar so I was ready to embrace everything! My dessert stomach is always ready.

This place is so close to home but yet I still haven’t had a chance to try it until now! Thanks to Chinesebites for the invitation to taste a few of their feature items. All desserts are inspired by recipes from Hong Kong. Here are the dishes that my table go to try:. Bubble Waffle with matcha and red bean

The dessert is not bad and good location in burnaby but portion are little small. Service is very friendly and many item you can order it. CASH ONLY!!

Yesterday, Joko, Tuna and I went over to Candy Tree on Kingsway for dessert. This restaurant opened about half a year ago, but is already gaining popularity. We went at around 9:30 and the place was completely full! It’s quite a small shop, and if we came any later, we would’ve been waiting at the line up that formed shortly.

They have a wide variety of snacks and desserts, including Hong Kong street food, shaved ice, bubble tea and other drinks, waffles, and traditional Chinese “tong sui”, or sweet soup.

Between the three of us, we ordered a hot and cold dessert.

Their shaved ice is customizable between flavours (milk, matcha, mango, strawberry) and a variety of toppings. The base price of $8.50 comes with 3 toppings, and each additional costs $1. We went for the matcha snow ice with grass jelly, rice balls, and mango. The texture was very interesting- the ice was shaved into blankets of delicious creaminess. I loved the bittersweetness of the matcha, but if you prefer sweeter things like Tuna, you could ask for condensed milk. (4/5)

The hot “tong sui” we got was Coconut Cream with Black Glutinous Rice (椰汁黑米露). I thought the sweetness was just right, but Tuna kept adding condensed milk to sweeten it. :P I felt that the consistency was too liquidy though. (3/5)

I would definitely return to try some more things, probably something savoury. It’s a close comparison to Icy Bar down the street, but with a bigger, more extensive menu, so if you like their food, I would recommend Candy Tree to you as well. The service was alright, slightly slow but still friendly.

Food: 3.5/5 | Service: 3/5 | Value: 4/5 | Ambiance: 3/5